Finley's 1st year & Birth Story!

June 24, 2010 our sweet baby girl was born, Finley Sage Marie Thompson 7.7 lbs 21 inches at 11:09 am

First time meeting Brother, less than 1 day old

 

Here is month 1-12 of you!

                                                                           

 



               

 

 

                                                    

                                                   

  

                                                    

and here you are as a BIG ONE YEAR OLD!

Time has WARP sped through your first year, little Finagles! I can see the baby starting to leave your face..and the toddler starting to enter!  It makes me sad, but I am excited for your future. You are the most beautiful baby girl I've ever met, inside and out- really you are. We are so thankful for you, God answered my daily pregnancy prayer for a "calm, content, healthy girl" you are all of that and I am eternally grateful! You complete our family and you are such a joy to be around, we just love you so much.  I love the relationship you and Curren have, ..he is so protective of you and so proud to show off his "sister". Curren can do no wrong in your eyes, and no one can make you laugh harder than he! Happy Birthday sweet Fin Fin, Daddy and I can't wait to see what you're life as a 1 year old has in store!!

I'm going to jot down your birth story here, because..better late than never. I will make it to-the-point.

On your due date (June 20), our midwife informed us she would be going on a meditation retreat, and would not be attending your birth. I may or may not have wished her a very un-relaxing, tense, and an un-meditative retreat.

Dad and I scrambled to find a Dr. as time was short. It was really important to us to KNOW what Dr. would be delivering you, I didn't want an on-call Dr.- wasn't happening. We found Dr. Coyle and he guaranteed to deliver you on June 24, as he would be the delivering Dr. that day. Against our original wishes of not having an induction, it was more important to me to know the doctor. So on the night of June 23, daddy and I packed our bags and headed to the hospital. During most of the day of June 23 I was having random contractions, we went to dinner with Nammy (my mom), Tapa (my dad), and Curren before leaving for the hospital. During dinner my contractions became very strong and were about 5 mins apart, so we headed to the hospital a little earlier than we were scheduled. ..here's  a time line to make it easy to read!

8:00 pm- check in at hospital, they tell me I am already in labor, they get us settled in the room and give me cervidil to hopefully start dilation- i was at a 2

12:00 am- back labor starts, Nurses were concerned you were "sunny side up, like Curren was"

3:00 am- back labor was KILLING me, dilated to a 4. Daddy squeezed my hips with each contraction to relive the pain in my back, it really helped...and if he stopped squeezing too soon, mama was screamin..I remember using the "deep O" technique, just basically belting out OOOOOOOO and it creates some vibration in your body that relieves the pain, and it WORKS.

5:00 am- 4cm I get into the labor tub/jacuzzi and was discouraged by not much relief

6:00 am- mama is over BACK labor, still at a 4 is debating getting an epidural

9:00 am- almost to 5 cm SCREAMING for Daddy to call the Nurse to get the epidural, and feeling DONE ..oh and somewhere during this they gave me an ambien for some reason..? I was kind of out of it.

10:00 am- get the epidural (took awhile), going to rest, at a 5 finally..nurses leave to let me rest

10:20 am- I say, " Ryan call my mom CALL MY MOM RIGHT NOW, tell her to hurry, she's coming out, pressure PRESSURE! call the nurse! call someone!" Nurses come in and say, "Honey you were just at a 5 twenty mins ago let me check you, I really doubt"..."CALL THE DR! Baby is coming now!"

10:30 am- Nammy arrives..still waiting for the Dr. Nurses telling me to stop pushing, I'm telling them "I'M NOT!"

after this you just started coming down, I honestly was not pushing and we could all see you comin out!

Dr. was no where to be found!

Finally I had to start pushing, I couldn't NOT push, I just had to- so I did, I just figured the nurses would catch you!

11:07 Uh Oh YOU'RE HEAD'S out

11:08 Dr. runs in, and literally catches you as your shoulders came out

11:09 you were born!!

You laid on my chest and we relaxed listening to the music that daddy had playing..Moby to be exact. It was an amazing labor, you were totally perfect. You nursed like a champ (and still do). We were gone the following morning, left at 10 am so we could be home with Curren, plus I hate how they wake you up throughout the night at the hospital, I knew I was going to need all the sleep I could get, especially considering Curren was still not sleeping through the night. Dr. Coyle checked us all out the next morning..no tears no nothing and good to go!

Good Times!

and PS, thanks for being born 1 day before our anniversary, now we have no excuse to ever forget :)

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